The 2024 election results make clear: The Asian American electorate has shifted further right. The trend portends a new future for this voting bloc that bodes well for the Republican Party. And it has been brewing for years.

As the dust settles on the election, the pro-choice majority of Americans have spoken. Voters in New York, despite a swing towards Donald Trump, overwhelmingly approved ballot Proposal 1, enshrining in the state Constitution a right to exercise reproductive freedoms, despite somewhat being vaguely worded and confusing.

We don’t yet know exactly how many votes Republicans will control in the U.S. Senate, but control they will — which means Brooklyn’s own, Democrat Chuck Schumer, will no longer be majority leader.

Much will be studied, analyzed and written for years to come about why Americans voted an openly authoritarian leader back into power in apparently greater margins than they did eight years ago. What’s clearer and more important at this moment is what millions of our fellow citizens did by putting Donald Trump back in the White House.

When it came to their ballot choices on Tuesday, many of the same women who voted to enshrine reproductive rights in their state constitutions also voted to return to the White House the man responsible for stripping them of that right, Donald Trump.

In the rivers of ink and trillions of bytes dedicated to understanding the past presidential election, consider this notion: The race was really a contest of competing narratives.

So … what happened?

Unlike Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, which was surprising and shocking (including to him and Hillary Clinton), his sweeping win Tuesday night was there to see when 70% of Americans were telling pollsters that the country was on the wrong track. That’s more than enough to derail any train and Kamala Harris was the conductor.

It was perhaps natural that campaign coverage of the presidential candidates’ health care policies began and ended with abortion rights; since June 2022, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 20 states have banned abortions or enacted draconian restrictions on the procedure.

Immigration and the 50 million people in this country who were foreign born have been an unfair target for both political parties in this election. America needs immigrants and the economy would fall apart without their work.

Building permit delays create headaches for everyone.

Just two weeks after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm, carving a trail of destruction and causing at least 227 deaths throughout six states, Hurricane Milton pummeled Sarasota, Florida, where I live, with Category 3 winds of more than 100 mph.

The 2024 election marks the collapse of the mainstream media as we know it.